Nintendo Downloads Bring Gargoyle's Quest and a $2 Calculator

Want to pay for a calculator located on your gaming device? You're in luck!

A week after bringing us a 3D Classics version of Urban Champion, Nintendo's downloadable offerings this week aren't much more exciting. The most noteworthy of the offering might just be that calculator app we've all been dying for.

Other new additions include firefighting game The Ignition Factor on the Wii's Virtual Console (a SNES game from 1995), Let's Create! Pottery for DSiWare/eShop ($4.99/500 points), action game Magical Whip: Wizards of the Phantasmal Forest for DSiWare/eShop ($1.99/200 points), and shooter Kyotokei for WiiWare (500 points).

And then there's the strangest of the bunch: Calculator for DSiWare and the eShop. It's not a game; it's simply a functioning calculator that is accompanied on the eShop by an 87-second video demonstration of its number-crunching power. Its page on Nintendo's website (located behind an ESRB age gate because it doesn't have an ESRB rating) seems to struggle to find enough features to list, resorting to things like "Percent button will behave just like on a basic calculator" and "Memory buttons will also behave just like on a basic calculator."

Even stranger is the description that claims, "It's always available in your pocket, instead of pulling out your web-enabled mobile device to realize your lab walls blocks most wireless Internet access."

Why anyone would resort to using their DSi or 3DS as a calculator, I don't know. It's not free, either -- you'll have to fork over $1.99 (200 points) to download it.

Back to the Ghoul Realm

I've never had the opportunity to play through the original Gargoyle's Quest, but I loved GQ II and Demon's Crest. Nintendo's eShop is turning out to be a decent way for 3DS owners to wait out the current software drought. Mario Kart 7 just can't come soon enough!

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i think getting gargoyle's quest on the 3ds vc is pretty cool. that's one of those gb games that i never got around to getting and can't be bothered with hunting up, but i'll definitely consider throwing $4 down to download it.

Odd

Why would Capcom bring this Gargoyle's Quest to VC when neither of the others have hit the Wii yet? Well, maybe they just wanted to do them in order... or, more likely, they're hoping Firebrand being in UMvC3 will help drum up interest for them. Well, if they ever get around to releasing Demon's Crest, I'll give it a go. I'm not sure about this one, though.